In article <3f50c242@news.povray.org>, Oliver Jaxid <mai### [at] finniqcom> 
wrote:

> but i'am not the only one. minimum 50% of all articles in this group 
> then are beeing wrong placed cause not about pov-source-programming. and 
> this was the ground why i've posted here. so, i think that the names of 
> the groups for pov-news-noobs are a little bit diffuse.

This seems to be true, although I have no idea why. There's *.newusers, 
*.general, *.advanced-users...what attracts people to a group about 
programming? Especially when watching for a few days would show where 
all the posts are.

And your misconception...why would anyone think *.binaries.programming 
was a discussion group unrelated to *.programming? I would have thought 
it was fairly obviously the binary counterpart to this one. I'm not 
attacking you, but I'm really wondering what drove you to that 
conclusion. And why do people disregard all the pointers to the 
documents describing the purpose of each group?

What makes the names unclear? We have povray.programming, we have 
povray.binaries.programming. You could use "source-code", but that would 
probably be worse. "development" is even more unclear, and imprecise...a 
discussion may not be about POV-Ray development but still be on-topic. 
Writing scenes could be considered programming, but given the 
alternatives, why do people go straight to this group?

Particularly, why do new users avoid povray.newusers so thoroughly?

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